韦伯在理性主义和非理性主义、自然主义和反自然主义、国家主义和自由主义的紧张和冲突中坚韧探求,这种矛盾和冲突不仅是其精神紧张的人格化体现,更内化于其极富争议又魅力不减的方法论中。一方面韦伯把价值相关作为社会科学研究的先验前提;另一方面,韦伯认为,在研究过程中应做到价值中立而坚决拒斥价值判断。韦伯理想类型的研究方法正是基于以上考量的结晶,是纯粹形态的思想图像和乌托邦。它作为比较和衡量实在的手段,随着实在发生变化又需要建构新的理想类型与之相匹配,理想类型和实在就是在这种张力中不断发展更替。毋庸置疑,正是韦伯方法论内在逻辑中的张力使其具有持久的生命力。
Weber explored on the tensions and conflicts between rationalism and irrationalism, naturalism and anti -naturalism, nationalism and liberalism, this contradiction and conflict is not only the personified reflect of mental nervous, but its highly internalized in his methodology which is controversial and glamorous. On the one hand Weber take value relevance as the priori premise of social science research , on the other hand he claim that we should adhere to Value - neutrality and firmly reject value judgments in the course of the study. The research method of Weber' s ideal type is the crystallization that based on the above considerations , it is a pure form of thought image and a utopia. As the means that measure and compare the reality, with the changes of the reality , we need to construct a new ideal types matched with the reality, the ideal type and reality are continuously develop and replaced in the tension. Needless to say, it is the tension in inherent logic of Weber' s Methodology that make it has a lasting vitality.